Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35291, Zephaniah Everton, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Miss
Everton, Zephaniah or Zephaniah
S. 35291
CONTENTS

11-405
District of Maine
Lephaniah Everton
of Thomaston in the state of District of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 8 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of June 1820 and sent to Ebenezer Thatch Esq. Lincoln District Maine
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar 1819  87.10    Semi-anl. all'ce ending  4 th Sep 1819  48.00    10 Mo \frac{23}{50} \frac{4}{3}   $135.10  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Revolutionary claim of Lephaniah Everton of Thomaston, Maine. Pay to her or her order the sum of One Hundred and Thirty Five Dollars and Ten Cents for services rendered during the war of 1812.

By Euston

I Stephen Evertson of Thomaston in the County of Lincoln and State of Massachusetts do here by testify & declare that on the third day of April One Thousand seven hundred & seventy seven I enlisted as a drummer under Lieutenant Lamb of Boston and marched with said Lamb to a place called White Marsh near Philadelphia & remained under the orders of said Lamb who was styled Captain Lieutenant and marched with him from said White Marsh to Lan- caster in Pennsylvania where all the Regiment com- manded by Colonel Henry Jackson (to which said Lamb belonged) were inoculated for the small pox. after which we were marched from Lancaster to Valley Forge thence into Philadelphia and in medi- ately to Monmouth Battle. — And that I after- ward was marched into the State of Rhode Island and was at an engagement in said state of Rhode Island at a place called Snakers-hill in said service and against the common enemy — After which last mentioned battle I was immediately put into a Company commanded by Captain Turner in whose company I continued actively and faith- fully to serve until I was discharged, which took place in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred & eighty at a place called Half Moon — Three miles below Morristown. — I received an honorable discharge in writing from Colonel Henry Jackson aforesaid — but have lost said discharge — I furthermore testify & declare that I was discharged on the third day of April of said year — last mentioned viz At D 1700 — making the full term of three years for which I enlisted — and further that I served at various other places beside those before mentioned & all against the common enemy — That the whole of said service was on the Continental establishment.

and in the Massachusetts line —
I further testify & declare that I have never received nor claimed any pension from the United States — & that I hereby relinquish all claim to any before the present time — and further that from my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my Country for support & therefore respectfully ask to be placed on the pension list of the United States as a Musician — by virtue of the Act of Congress passed the eighteenth of March AD 1818 entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" — I further more testify & declare that I am now 55 years old & have lost the use of my right hand in consequence of an injury received while I was in this service aforesaid Stephens W. Everton
State of Massachusetts.
County of Lincoln SS. — On this eighth day of April in the Year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred & eighteen — Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit in the State of Massachusetts — Stephen W. Everton who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit, & after being by me carefully cautioned & duly examined made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration to which his name is subscribed & fully satisfied me of the same particularly that by reason of his reduced circumstances, he is in need of assistance from his Country for support — he being very destitute as to Property & unable to work in consequence of losing the use of his right hand — Oliver Hatcher

129 Lephaniah Everton -
11.403 The full value of the property must be stated
Sept. 1919
notified to be in the office, 10: Sept. 1920.

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER , Judges of said Court.
ON this Sixth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared before Ebenezer Thatcher a Judge of the C.C.C. Pleas 2 d Eastern circuit
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Zephaniah Everton aged fifty six years, resident in Thomaston in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Thomas Turner in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the Eighth day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 11403 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Zephaniah Everton
Sworn to and declared, on the Sixth day of July A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Ebenezer Thatcher
{ One of the Judges of the said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
One cow, Six sheep One swine.
Farming tools Viz. One shovel, one ax, one pitch fork Furniture - Six chairs one pine table, one hard wood table - candle stand -
I have no debts due to me and am indebted to the amount of about $270.
Stephenah Everton
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Stephenah Everton who, by occupation am a labourer which I am unable to pursue by reason of loosing the use of my right hand which was jammed to pieces a number of years ago.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Margrett 53 years My wife - feeble health   William 17 years in health   Margrett 14 years in health { Children   Maria 11 y.. in health }  
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk
Stephenah Everton
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court ; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is XXXXX Forty one dollars and Dollars
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this XXXXX 8 th day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat. Coffin
Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
Oct 6 th 1818
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Leferiah Everton served as a Soldier in Capt. Turner's Company, and Col. H. Jackson's Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from April 3 rd 1777 to April 3 rd 1780, being three years and  months .
Holden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Boston, Sept. 30 th 1818
This Certifies that Ephraim Everton served as a Soldier in the Regiment commanded by Col o Henry Jackson of which I was a Paymaster, for the three Years service, in the revolutionary War, and, as appears from my Book was regularly discharged
Rob t Williams
To whom it may concern,
Boston County of Suffolk State of Massachusetts
I hereby certify that Rob t Williams made subscribes and swore to the above certificate before me Elias D. Thatcher one of the Justices of the Court of Pleas in the State of Massachusetts - Sept 30 th 1818

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35 291 Levy INVALID.
1930 Apr. 22. Photos mailed to Edw. H. Gould. See Ezekiel Wager, W. 23 248. 9. 107.
File No. 35, 291
Lephannick Everton Rev Rev Wao
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 125
[Arrangement of 1870.]

April 8 th 1810
Zephaniah Everton Thomastown
In April 1777. Enlisted as a Drummer in Col t . Henry Jackson's Reg t . Served till the year 1780
On roll
Phineas Fletcher
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Stephania Queston , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Thomaston , in the said County of Lincoln , in the District of Maine, on the eighth day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the Pension List of the United States, agreeably to the provision of an Act, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a Musician in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Ebenezer Thatcher
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
LINCOLN, ss.
I the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the Honorable EBENEZER THATCHER , Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:—Dated at Wiscasset, in said County of Lincoln, this _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
Nathl Goffin